35 years underground: Dan Price’s living free on tranquil river meadow by Kirsten Dirksen on August 17, 2025 For 35 years, Dan Price has lived underground in a tiny “hobbit hole” tucked into a quiet Oregon mountain meadow. …
Entropy fighters: on maintenance + Andy Campbell’s car (1.2 million km) by Nicolás Boullosa on August 13, 2025 Why paying attention to the small, unseen work makes the difference between collapse and endurance. From solo sailors to your …
6 friends, 6 units, 1 lot: each owns their dream home for $800/month by Kirsten Dirksen on August 10, 2025 In a town where average rent is $1,400, six single adults became homeowners for just $10,000 each—and now pay $800/month …
Dream Domestead uses water & geothermal for all-season paradise in Spain by Kirsten Dirksen on August 3, 2025 This off-grid homestead includes two handcrafted natural homes, a geodesic dome greenhouse built from local stone, a hand-dug stream, two …
Walking the margins: how places reveal themselves in the gaps by Nicolás Boullosa on July 31, 2025 From the cul-de-sac to the canal path, our built environments shape how we move, think, and belong. Psychogeography isn’t dead—it …
She got ancient hermit tower, cave & chapel for the price of a car by Kirsten Dirksen on July 27, 2025 In the wild, stony hills of the Mani Peninsula—once home to pirates, hermits, and feuding clans— Elena Zervoudakis stumbled upon …
Quiet corners of the internet: on friendship, inquiry & slow connection by Nicolás Boullosa on July 23, 2025 The internet can sometimes live up to its promise and be a force for good. One of the places where …
Family’s self-built greenhouse home in farm country has indoor orchard 🌳 by Kirsten Dirksen on July 20, 2025 When Roja Brimalm and Johan Holmstedt set out to build a home for their family on the windswept plains of …
Slouching Towards the Singularity: AI musings from Telegraph Avenue by Nicolás Boullosa on July 17, 2025 On Telegraph Avenue from Oakland to Berkeley, where rebellion once thrived, conformity and resignation now scroll by. What does it …
NYC microstudio transforms on-demand with wall-embedded furniture by Kirsten Dirksen on July 13, 2025 When Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox (“Orange Is the New Black”) bought her first home—a 634-square-foot studio in Manhattan she first …
